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LEGGING.

ARELICATION FILED MAY 22| |918.

Patented Dec. 9,1919.

' CHARLES K. WARREN, FEATHERBONE C0., IGAN.

or THREE sans, MICHIGAN, 0E TnnEE OAKS, MICHIGAN, e. CORPORATION or MIGH- ASSIGNOE To TEE WARREN LEGGING.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 9, 1919.

Application led May 22, 1918. Serial No. 235,930.

To all whom z't may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES K. WARREN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of rIhree Oaks, in the county of Berrien and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Leggings, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to leggings, particularly to military leggings and to those constructed of more flexible material such as canvas.

Leggings made of more flexible materia-l suc as canvas-soontend to wrinkle and collapse, particularly Aafter they have become wet. Usually stiffening strips are applied along the Hap ends but these keep only the flaps and the adjacent sections of the leggingstraight,'the other sections soon wrinkling, buckling and creasing. The object of myV invention is therefore to provide improved means for stiening those sections away from the liaps without materially increasing the cost of manufacture. Usually leggings are built up of a number of vertical sections seamed together, and in accordance with my invention I double seam the sections together and where required I insert stiffening strips of steel, featherbone or other suitable material, the strips together with the overlapping seam sections producing stifened bands which will keep the legging smooth and unwrinkle On the accompanying drawing Vwhich illustrates my invention,

Figure 1 is eine,

Fig. 2 is an plane 2-2, Fig. 1, and

Fig. 3 is an enlarged sectional view on plane 3-3, Fig. 1.

The legging shown is built up of the four sections a, Zi, c and Z of canvas or other flexible material, the sections a and b ybeing the Hap sections, which atV their meeting edges are constructed to provide pockets for stiifening strip structures 5 and 6 along enlarged sectional View on which hooks 7 and eyes 8 are fastened to be Y received by the cord 9.

The outer edges of the Hap sections are seamed to the adjacent edges of the sections Vcanddateand a perspective view of a legf and the seam g secures together the other edges of the sections c 'and (nl. As clearly shown in Fig. 3, double seamlng isV preferably resorted to, the adjacent ends of the sections being folded and overlapped, and sewn together at the ends along sewing lines lz, and e' these sewing lines 'being spaced apart a. suficient distance so that a stiffening strip 10 may be inserted through the seam from the top to the bottom of the legging. This stifl'ening strip can be placedbetweenrany of the adjacent folds of the seam. In Fig. 3 it is shown between the outer folds of the seam, and the strip together with the three fold sections will provide a stilfen'ing band which is strong and rigid to keep the adj acent cloth from wrinkling, yet which is suffi` ciently pliable to permit the cloth to follow the curves of the ankle and leg so that the legging can snugly lit. A stiening strip could =be placed in any or all of the seams, such strips lbeing particularly desirable in the front and rear seams f and e. After insertion of the strips the upper and lower edges of the legging are folded inwardly and down and secured by sewing lines j and lc to form stiff hems assist in preventing wrinkling.

The stiifening strips may be of spring metal or of other flexible material such as whalebone or featherbone, and owing to the double seaming which provides four layers along the strengthening bands the stiifening strips can be very light so that v the weight, and the cost of the manufacture of the legging are not materially increased.

Having described my invention, I claim:

In a legging, vertical sections of fabric folded back along adjacent edges, the free edge of one vertical section being interposed between adjacent plies of the other section and sewn together along the bends to forrn a multi-ply strengthening band, and a stiffening strip inserted between the sewing lines and between adjacent plies.

In witness whereof, I my name this 13 day of May, A. D., 1918.

CHARLES K. WARREN.

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